center for american progress. >> it was started by chief of staff for bill clinton. these are not new proposals. a lot of these groups have had these lying around for years waiting for an opportunity to impose them on the country. this is clearly an opening for them. what's interesting is this contains one of the proposals is universal background checks is term for universal gun regulation. it will no longer be illegal if congress passes it for anybody to give a shot gun for his son tore christmas without notifying the federal government and getting a background check and registering the weapon. >> on that note this article in the "washington post" says there's an estimated 40 percent of gun sales that happen no questions asked. >> that is one of those numbers throw around in the media not at all clear where that comes from at all. >> it doesn't say the source but that is a shocking number if that is true. >> it is pretty hard to know something like that because we don't. that's a pure estimate. i bet you 20 bucks. i don't know the answer but i bet you 20 bucks that